Using Google Citations you can graph citations over time, compute several citation metrics and be alerted to articles citing you.
You also have the ability to make your personal profile private, or open to the world so that your name appears in Google Scholar results. For example, here is School of Earth Sciences Professor Emeritus Michael McWilliams:
His profile can also be viewed here on Google Citations.
A librarian friend at Portland State Library had this to say about it:
@joanpdx
“Started using Google Citations this summer and just got an alert that one of my articles was cited. Love it.”
Pretty good endorsement for a free Google Tool!
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Next Monday, October 17th, Patricia Carbajales will show you how to master these very important, but not so intuitive skills. This is a very practical workshop, so be ready to get your hands dirty with GIS data.
The topics included in this workshop are:
- Georeferencing images
- Importing GPS data
- Importing table data (Excel, .csv, Access)
- Joining Tables
- Geocoding (addresses, zipcodes)
When: Monday, October 17th, from 1pm to 4pm
Where: A65 classroom (Sub-basement of Mitchell Earth Sciences Building)
Who: Any Stanford patron with basic familiriaty with ArcGIS
RSVP fast by emailing Patricia Carbajales at carbajales@stanford.edu
For more information visit the workshop website at bit.ly/geotraining
We are offering a 3-hour very hands-on workshop on GIS for all of the new users to spatial technology. This is a free workshop for all of our Stanford patrons (staff, faculty and students) and you just need to bring yourself! We will provide the rest.
When: Oct. 10 , 12:30-3:30pm
Where: Room A65 in the sub-basement of Mitchell Earth Sciences Building
Who: Stanford Community - All are welcome.
RSVP fast by emailing Patricia Carbajales at carbajales@stanford.edu
For more information visit the workshop website at bit.ly/geotraining
Please join us for a talk by Professor Kobayashi Shigeru!
Stanford University owns a large but uncatalogued set of Japanese colonial surveys (gaihōzu), mostly from the 1930s and 40s, including detailed topographical maps of the entire empire as well as thematic maps for Manchuria. While similar materials also exist in other collections (the Library of Congress, as well as more than a dozen other institutions in the US, Taiwan, & Japan), these maps have mostly lain outside of the purview of colonial historians until now. This symposium will examine the utility of these colonial maps as tools for historical research. Our presenters represent a diverse, international group of scholars who are interested in reconstructing past landscapes—whether urban or rural—and analyzing colonial development priorities and practices by using cartographic documents as a resource.
When:
Friday, October 7, 2011. 05:00 PM.
Approximate duration of 1.5 hour(s).
Where:
Building 200 - Room 307, History Corner, Main Quad (Map)
Admission:
Free and open to the public. RSVP requested by October 5 to Sayoko Sakakibara at sakakibara@stanford.edu. Please include name, affiliation
and field of study.
For more information, visit: http://events.stanford.edu/events/290/29043
When: Oct. 3, 1-4pm
Where: Room A65 in the sub-basement of Mitchell Earth Sciences Building
Who: Stanford Community - All are welcome.
RSVP fast by emailing Patricia Carbajales at carbajales@stanford.edu
For more information visit the workshop website atbit.ly/geotraining
The holders of the research funding purse strings have been showing more and more interest in the bits and bytes of data as well. Since the NSF announced the requirement of a Data Management Plan submission with every proposal to the agency on January 18, 2011, funders have been quickly re-writing policies and upping the ante on researchers. Soon after the NSF policy was implemented, the directorates themselves added more specific requirements on to the general guidelines. For instance the Ocean Sciences division of GEO states that, data must be submitted to an approved repository “no later than 2 years after the data are collected.” Rumors are swirling that NOAA will soon be trumping even this tight timeline by requiring “all environmental data created using NOAA grant funding must be shared no later than 90 days after the end date of the project (at the same time the final project report is due).”
The trend at this point seems clear - labs will be under more and more pressure to share and preserve their data, and standardize their documentation. The Stanford University Libraries are in the early stages of growing a Data Services program on campus….How can we help you?
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Deccan Plateau, India
This Atlas was published in London in the year 1880 and contains 32 pages of maps. What’s so special about these maps you say? Most of the maps are, what the atlas calls embossed, or put another way, raised-relief, where you can see the indentations of the valleys and paper raised upwards, to the height of the mountains. The modern day equivalents are usually in plastic–check these out at the Branner Library. These days, it is relatively easy to purchase a raised relief map that can be hung on a wall, especially of popular maps such as one of the United States.
For high quality scans of this Atlas, watch the David Rumsey site in the coming months. David Rumsey is bound to announce it on Twitter.
While the libraries sponsors many different workshops throughout the year, we are also willing to arrange for an on-demand group workshops on a topic of your choice. Please contact Branner Library (brannerlibrary@stanford.edu) for more information.
Workshop Descriptions & Schedule
The complete workshop schedule is also available online.
]]>Three sessions of New Graduate Student Orientation to
Science & Engineering Libraries Information Tools will be held:
• Monday, September 19, 1:30-2:30 - NVIDIA Auditorium, Huang Center
• Tuesday, September 20, 1:30-2:30 - NVIDIA Auditorium, Huang Center
• Wednesday, September 21, 1:30-2:30 - NVIDIA Auditorium, Huang Center
NVIDIA Auditorium is on the terrace (lowest) level of the building.
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